Urgent: "\" in strings?

[Ruud de Rooij]

Nick Bower <bowern at ses.curtin.edu.au> writes:

> I'm messing with PIL, and the only way I can see to get a palette out of
> an image returns a string such as:
> 
> '\000\000\001\002' etc
> 
> which is not that weird until you do a s[0] and it returns:
> 
> '\000' instead of '\
> 
> How do I convert this string to numbers?

Those \000 indicate characters with a value outside the printable
ASCII range.  So '\000' is a single character with the ASCII value
0.

ord(s[0]) is probably what you are looking for to convert them to
numbers.

	- Ruud de Rooij.
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